Los Angeles Times: Entertainment

Emery Becker, a well-known photographer in L.A.’s indie music scene, was struck and killed by a suspected drunk driver early Sunday, according to reports. According to reports, the 25-year-old Becker, a Burbank resident, was driving his motorcycle on the 5 Freeway just north of Echo Park when a...

Fifth Harmony is going its separate ways. After six years together, the R&B group has announced an indefinite hiatus as its members pursue solo interests. “Reflecting on the past six years since we started on ‘X-Factor,’ we've realized just how far we've come and we appreciate everything so much,...

The high-stakes antitrust showdown over AT&T Inc.’s planned $85 billion purchase of Time Warner Inc. began in a Washington courtroom Monday as both sides sparred over some key issues that signaled their legal strategies.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Mid-20s Australian artist Stella Donnelly was about halfway through “Mean to Me,” a song about a no-good significant other who criticizes her jokes, acts bored in her presence and lacks even a sliver of human decency, when she decided to lighten the mood with the lilt of a violin.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Hello! I'm Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. The South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, wrapped up this week, and this turned out to be a pretty exciting year.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

When she was a newly independent teen living in a tiny New York apartment, Barbra Streisand never made her bed. Determined to pursue her dream as a Broadway actress, she regarded her unkempt covers and thought, “I have to make it.” Make it in her career, that is.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Jonathan Wilson, “There’s a Light” video (Bella Union). The singer, songwriter, producer and musical connector has long tapped into the history of Los Angeles guitar rock, and in a new video for a song from his just issued album, “Rare Birds,” Wilson zeroes in on the reason: “There is a feeling...

If America were ready for a drag queen president — stranger things have happened — there is no question that Taylor Mac would be the one to come up with history’s most astutely outrageous, and most outrageously astute, version of “Hail to the Chief.” Mac also could turn into a dictator.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

“Have you been to Echo Park Lake? You wanna go down there?” Nick Robinson asks. He’s finished his cortado, a frothy espresso drink that became his go-to coffee order after a trip to Spain a few years ago, and says it’s nice outside — not too cold.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Jeffrey Kahane, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s music director for 20 years, now the ensemble’s conductor laureate, was back — if only for a weekend. And it was as if nothing had changed.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The new Stewart Copeland-Jonathan Moore opera “The Invention of Morel” from the mavericks at Long Beach Opera comes with a boatload of issues to ponder. Here are just a few: Is unrequited love worth dying for?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

SERIES Kevin Can Wait Vanessa (Leah Remini) wants Kevin (Kevin James) to appear on a TV talk show with the now-adult “baby boy” he helped deliver years ago as a cop in this new episode.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

New on Blu-ray “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (Disney/Buena Vista DVD, $19.96; Blu-ray, $24.96; 4K, $29.96; also available on VOD) The “Star Wars” franchise is so monolithic and means so many different things to so many different people that it’s hard to make a movie that’ll please every fan.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Tumult at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the new buildings slated to rise in Los Angeles. I’m staff writer Carolina A. Miranda with this week’s essential art news (and an essential song devoted to bread): IMAGE OF THE WEEK MOCA CHIEF CURATOR OUT Times art critic Christopher Knight broke the...

Twenty years ago, with a University of Oregon architecture degree under his belt, Bay Area kid Daniel Wu took a serendipitous trip to Hong Kong as his graduation present. He wanted to witness the handover, stay a few months, then go home and figure out what to do with his life.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It was the afternoon of Charli XCX's debut L.A. outing of her new “Pop 2” mixtape, and the British pop rebel posted a picture of herself outside a Staples office store opposite the El Rey Theatre on Thursday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

SERIES Christiane Amanpour: Sex & Love Around the World The veteran journalist travels to Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, exploring the topics of romance and sexual satisfaction, in this new six-part series.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

In the 21st century, cinematic universes housing the canons of Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Harry Potter and other franchises have largely replaced movie stars on the big screen. As Netflix and Amazon Prime gobble up content for their streaming services, and cable networks such as HBO and FX attract...

“Sneaky Pete,” the Amazon drama series starring Giovanni Ribisi, is relocating to California from the New York area due to the California tax incentive program that has approved $9.2 million for the show’s third season.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Jim Carrey, who hasn’t been shy about his political opinions on social media since taking a step back from the entertainment industry, found himself in hot water among conservatives over the weekend when he took a shot at White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

After five weekends in theaters, Marvel's comic book juggernaut "Black Panther" continues to crush both the box office and the record books. The Disney blockbuster added $27 million to its domestic earnings this weekend, raising its cumulative ticket sales to $605.4 million, according to figures...

Charlie “Chalo” Quintana, a fixture on the Southern California punk and roots music scene for decades, has died after struggling in recent years with emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, his sister Elizabeth Montoya confirmed to The Times.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The music (and film and tech and everything else) at South by Southwest almost always looks to the future. Emerging acts and novel sounds and panels try to make sense of a music industry turned inside-out.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

"Wild Wild Country," a highly pleasurable new documentary series premiering Friday on Netflix, is a dippy tale of the early 1980s in which East meets West and, out of an attempt to build a paradise, all hell breaks loose.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share